Viv Albertine Quotes

Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words.

Viv Albertine

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I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

Jimmy Wales

PositiveFunWorldDoingMission

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

Jim Clyburn

OpportunitiesStandReadyAheadOpen

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

Joely Richardson

MotherHumanYearsRightsCallLast

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Meryl Streep

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One of the fun things about playing live is watching the audience sing the songs back to us.

Tom Dumont

LiveFunBackWatchingAudienceUs

I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.'

Rob Thomas

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I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

Robbie Williams

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And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

Rube Goldberg

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To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

Mike Mills

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You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

Lorrie Moore

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A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

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I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Christina Aguilera

NatureCreativityExploringAlways

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